Diane Mermigas

Media business journalist, analyst and author

About Diane Mermigas

Diane Mermigas is an award-winning business journalist and columnist specializing in media, entertainment, telecommunications and the Internet, as well as the economics, trends and issues that drive them. She is a “must-read” for her unique contextual big-picture analysis, strategic forecasts, and high-level executive interviews which have become critical to understanding the dramatic and rapid change reshaping these industries.

Ms. Mermigas has contributed to a variety of websites and publications. She served as Contributing Editor and Columnist for The Hollywood Reporter and Contributing Editor to Media Post. For two decades she was a leading columnist, business reporter and senior editor for Crain Communications’ Electronic Media and Advertising Age

A frequent participant in leading industry and business conferences, Ms. Mermigas worked with the World Economic Forum’s Media and Entertainment Strategy Partnership, American University’s Center for Social Media and Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Most recently at DePaul University in Chicago, Diane has enjoyed mentoring and teaching students in new media studies and timely media topics. She has helped students match their skills and interest to marketplace opportunities; and create business models and plans for potential funding sources.

Ms. Mermigas also has contributed to CNBC and other television news programs, and to various academic guest speaker series. She is working on several books, and developing media-related educational and analytical materials. She also has served as a strategic planning consultant to a variety of individual companies and service providers such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

She also has served as a strategic planning consultant to a variety of individual companies and service providers such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Yankee Group, GE Capital and NBC.

The Wright Stuff

News about the book

At the end of our time on this good earth, who we were and what we did survive in words and deeds that can inspire and change the world. And so it was with Suzanne Wright, who passed away July 29 at age 69 from pancreatic cancer. I have known Bob and Suzanne Wright... read more

Bob Wright shares his unique insights about Donald Trump in his autobiography The Wright Stuff, which I co-authored. Trump’s unconventional bid for The White House is driven by a laser-like focus on objectives and burning desire to win which were dramatically... read more

Archive

Archive of select writings

The short-term tactics that media companies are resorting to in the intensified battle between content suppliers and distributors will do more harm than good to programming economics in the long term. At the moment, all the players are grabbing on to whatever leverage... read more

I received a nice nod here from guest blogger Amanda Lotz on the B&C website Guest Blog: How OTT Hides Television’s Revolution Terminology of OTT suggests separate worlds of television that are clearly intertwined 3/08/2016 03:00:00 PM The first use I can find of... read more

Diane's Contributions

About Me

Diane Mermigas is an award-winning business reporter and analyst whose long-running Mermigas on Media column and cutting-edge interviews with leading media, entertainment and Internet industry executives have appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Advertising Age and its former sister publication Electronic Media, and elsewhere.
She is a conference speaker, consultant, and adjunct professor (most recently at DePaul University) on digital media business strategies and trends.
She has worked as as a book researcher, developmental editor and co-author most recently with Bob Wright on The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks (Rosetta Books, 2016).
She resides in Chicago and Boston.